Cinema and Community

by D. McKiernan

Overview

In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship with the idea and practice of community in the context of rapidly changing social conditions. Films examined include Ae Fond Kiss, The Idiots and Monsoon Wedding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349355235
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

D.W. MCKIERNAN is an Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds, UK, and prior to his retirement was Principal Lecturer and Head of the Department of Cultural and Communication Studies. He was also a founding member of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Leeds University, now the AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Community in the Cinema Representing the Ambivalence of Community Realizing Community in Suburban America Class, Gender and Communitarianism Leaving the Margins: Women and Community Honour and Community in Multicultural Britain Globalization, Mobility and Community Community, Structure and Anti-structure Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'This elegantly argued, insightful book looks at the manner in which the commercial cinema presents modern audiences with images of community as ideals to be either embraced or questioned.'

- W. W. Dixon, American Library Association

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